Yes
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:44 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
is it the same file with the same size?
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:37 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
The hidden files contain the same file that I put in the specified
folder for the transfered movie, why does it put the same thing in
a hidden folder, thus doubling the space that a already large movie
takes up. Please tell me more. Also do I use the file that is
hidden on the Mac on the Windows machine for her MP3 player because
I noticed that the one I have doesn't seem to want to transfer now.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:15 PM, James Austin wrote:
It is not likely to be a virus. I have seen similar things appear
on my USB storage etc when I've used them in a Windows machine.
It is something to do with hiden files i think
On 23 Oct 2007, at 23:55, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Well here is my problem and it is a dubby. I noticed it when I
started using Handbreak on the Mac to convert DVD's to a format
that can be played on my wife's Creative Zinn M MP3 player. I
would convert the movie and move it to a folder created for
transfering the files called converted movies. I would take the
file from my Mac and put it in that folder, put it in my wif's
Windows machine and ttransfer the movie. After this is done I see
a folder on the top level of the thumb drive called .trashes
or .data. The Mac doesn't see these strange files, but when I
open them I see a copy of the movie with a bunch of files that
have dot in the front of their name. Since the file wasn't
created by me or my wife and the Mac doesn't reconize them as
being there, I figured it was a virus. This happens on any
Windows machine that I have tried. In trouble shooting the
problem I was going to start with a new thumb drive and go from
there. Google has no relavent results for the .trashes issue. If
anyone knows whats going on, please inform me of what to do. Thanks
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
Hi all, I don't usually contribute on here, so thanks for
allowing me to do
so. Anyway, from a general computing point of view, you should
*only* format
any media, including thumb drives, hard drives, etc, if the file
system
becomes seriously corrupted. True, it erases all the data, but
unless you
can fork out money for data recovery, you might as well lose
data to get
your media working proper again. Just some thoughts there.
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower user
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire"
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of
Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Formatting my thumb drive using my Mac
I have not had to reformat or erase my Kingston thumb drive yet.
All I do is
'command+a' to select all, then hit the delete key and I have a
clean thumb
drive with the original amount of space on it. Have been doing
this for
about 3 years now and it always seem to work for me.
JG
On 10/23/07, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks
